For your convenience we accept MasterCard, Visa and Discover
as well as Cash. We also accept
CareCredit,
a personal line of credit usable for payment of your pet's medical bills.
If you are interested in pet insurance, you can ask for
information at the hospital, or find it at http://petinsurance.com.
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PAYMENT POLICY
We depend on fees to enable us to provide you with a highly
qualified professional staff and well-equipped hospital. Unlike human hospitals,
we do not receive income from grants, fund drives, or government programs like
Medicaid or Medicare.
The doctors and staff make every effort to estimate the cost
of planned treatment before providing services, and to advise you of your
options. However, the estimate is exactly that, an estimate. The actual cost of
services may be greater than the estimate based on the medical needs of your
pet. Sometimes your pet's health requires that the treatment plan be changed
once admitted. The doctors will make every effort to contact you if this becomes
necessary.
We require a deposit of 50% of the estimated fees when your
pet is admitted to the hospital for non-elective procedures, and payment-in-full
is due upon discharge of your pet from our hospital.
Payment is expected at the time of service. In order to keep
operating costs as low as possible and given that the hospital does not receive
any funding outside that of the fees we collect for our services, Southtowns
Animal Hospital is not able to extend credit.
